Election competition: 0.44 opposition members per seat
An average of 1.06 opposition members competed for a parliament seat a week ago.
Euroradio decided to count the opposition members who are still competing for seats in the Parliament.
The UCP is represented by 38 people, the BPF Party - by 31, the BSDP (Assembly) - by 11, "Fair World" - by 29. The campaign "Tell the Truth!"is supporting 13 registered candidates and 40 candidates are promoting the People's Programme of the movement "For Freedom". There are 162 representatives of the democratic forces!
The CEC website presents a different number of opposition candidates - about 117. The mistake can be explained by the fact that it is difficult to understand what candidate represents this or that political structure.
It turns out that the opposition election competition was 1.06. These people could "fill" all the constituencies and even more. Still, democrats competed with each other in some constituencies.
The United Civil Party and the BPF Party have asked their candidates to withdraw recently. Thus, there are only 49 representatives of the democratic forces or 0.44 per one of the 110 available seats now. And they will still have to compete with each other in some constituencies. That's what the Belarusian political competition is like.
Photo by: Zmitser Lukashuk
